Take a Giant Step 1959

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.

Cast:

Johnny Nash
Spencer Scott 

Estelle Hemsley
Grandmother Martin 

Ruby Dee
Christine 

Frederick O'Neal
Lem Scott 

Beah Richards
May Scott 

Ellen Holly
The Girl in the Bar